As it looks to accelerate the pace of its AI development, Google is streamlining the teams building its AI services, platforms, and tools.

This comes after the Gemini chatbot team was moved to DeepMind last year. In October 2024, Google CEO Sundar Pichai had said to his employees in a memo, "To maintain the momentum of progress, we've been streamlining our structures,

AGI is the overarching goal, but improved chatbots, AI-generated media, and potentially robots are also a part of the equation.

Explore Google DeepMind's innovative approach to AI through world models, a groundbreaking initiative that seeks to simulate reality and advance toward artificial general intelligence.

Google DeepMind is recruiting a new team of artificial intelligence researchers to develop models that "simulate the physical world".

Google DeepMind is assembling a new team of artificial intelligence researchers to develop “world models” that can simulate physical environments. The initiative will be led by Tim Brooks, a former co-lead for OpenAI’s Sora project who joined DeepMind in October to work on Google’s video generation and world simulators.

DeepMind’s Genie puts the company at the forefront of world model development, but it faces a number of competitors in this area, such as World Labs Technologies Inc ., a startup created by the renowned AI researcher Fei-Fei Lee, as well Odyssey Systems Inc. and Decart.AI Inc.

Google DeepMind is creating a new team to develop AI world models, focusing on simulating real-world dynamics and advancing artificial general intelligence.